# Force people to enter a "reason" when requesting access to a group

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-enter-a-reason-when-requesting-access-to-a-group/65535
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [3 juli 2017 om 19:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-enter-a-reason-when-requesting-access-to-a-group/65535 "2017-07-03T19:16:20Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3 juli 2017 om 19:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-enter-a-reason-when-requesting-access-to-a-group/65535/1 "2017-07-03T19:16:20Z")

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I am noticing at least 3 times a week people are asking for access to the #Customization > Plugin group when in fact they are either spam bots or people clicking the join button by mistake.

We should force people to enter a “reason” when they ask for access, and ideally allow a “custom” justify why you belong in the group message.

For example for plugin authors I would have the prompt be:

> Please include a link to your plugin in the box below. eg: `https://github.com/bob/my_awesome_plugin`

This would save me a bunch of regular work and I am sure would save work for others

@tgxworld can you make this change?

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### Author: ![scombs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/scombs/32/48616_2.png) [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)
#### Post date: [5 juli 2017 om 01:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-enter-a-reason-when-requesting-access-to-a-group/65535/3 "2017-07-05T01:06:54Z")

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After the request is submitted, could also change the button from

> Request to Join Group

to

> Cancel Request

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [8 augustus 2017 om 13:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-enter-a-reason-when-requesting-access-to-a-group/65535/4 "2017-08-08T13:58:40Z")

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The modal will look something like

 ![Screenshot from 2017-08-08 22-57-08](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/b/3bd1f3306f21e130537e40f2a1efb1bf0e206a09.png)

> [@sam](#):
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> “custom” justify why you belong in the group message.

This is exposed as a `membership_request_template` instead just like how we do it for category topic template.

 ![Screenshot from 2017-08-08 22-58-27](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/b/dbf800cfd4d3de0aa1da77b15fc9c4a22865383d.png)

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [9 augustus 2017 om 07:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-people-to-enter-a-reason-when-requesting-access-to-a-group/65535/5 "2017-08-09T07:16:19Z")

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PR has been merged, any feedback on the feature is welcomed 🙂